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After-Hours Telecommuting and Work-Family Conflict: A Comparative Analysis

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  • Linda Elizabeth Duxbury

    (School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6)

  • Christopher Alan Higgins

    (School of Business Administration, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada V6A 3K7)

  • Shirley Mills

    (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6)

Abstract

After-hours telecommuting (AHT) is a work arrangement where job-relevant work is done at home on a computer outside of regular office hours. This study examined how after-hours telecommuting affects an individual's ability to balance work and family demands (measured as role overload, spillover of interference from work to family and spillover of interference from family to work). It also examined the impact of gender and maternal career employment on these relationships. The analysis showed that men and women who performed after-hours telecommuting worked significantly more hours per week and a greater number of hours of overtime at home than did individuals without computers at home. After controlling for total work hours of both spouses, significant gender differences and differences due to performing after-hours telecommuting were found. These differences were associated with role overload and spillover of interference from work to family.

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  • Linda Elizabeth Duxbury & Christopher Alan Higgins & Shirley Mills, 1992. "After-Hours Telecommuting and Work-Family Conflict: A Comparative Analysis," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 3(2), pages 173-190, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orisre:v:3:y:1992:i:2:p:173-190
    DOI: 10.1287/isre.3.2.173
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    3. Sarbu, Miruna, 2022. "Does telecommuting kill service innovation?," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    4. Moiz Aijaz & Safia Shahab & Shahmir Khan & Erum Sana Nawab, 2020. "Life of Females in Pakistani Aviation: Assessing the Relationship of Work-Family Conflict With Stress and Job Satisfaction," International Journal of Business and Economic Affairs (IJBEA), Sana N. Maswadeh, vol. 5(4), pages 170-183.
    5. Jeff Hyman & Dora Scholarios & Chris Baldry, 2005. "Getting on or getting by?," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 19(4), pages 705-725, December.
    6. France Belanger & Rosann Webb Collins & Paul H. Cheney, 2001. "Technology Requirements and Work Group Communication for Telecommuters," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 12(2), pages 155-176, June.
    7. Wynne W. Chin & Barbara L. Marcolin & Peter R. Newsted, 2003. "A Partial Least Squares Latent Variable Modeling Approach for Measuring Interaction Effects: Results from a Monte Carlo Simulation Study and an Electronic-Mail Emotion/Adoption Study," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 14(2), pages 189-217, June.

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